Coper for forming the ends of strips and sticks



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COPER FOR FORMING THE ENDS OF STRIPS AND STICKS n i Filed Jan. 5, 1927 4 3 Sheets-sheet 3 Mu. mh P590 r TER PW? W7 W Patented Nov. 19, 1929 UNETE TES WILLIAM R. SAUTTER, OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA, ASSIGNOR OF FORTY PER CENT TO NELSON CLYDE PIERCE, OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA COPER FOR FORMING THE ENDS OF STRPS AND STICKS Application filed January 3, 1927.

This invention relates to means for forming joints between the meeting ends of strips of moldings for forming cornices or copings, and can also be used to form tenons on sticks or pieces for making furniture, and for other purposes.

The moldings referred to usually have one plane face adapted to fit against a wall and an outer ornamental face which is exposed to view; and such ornamental faces may be made up of surfaces either plane, or longitudinally fluted, ribbed, ridged, beaded or grooved, the longitudinal traces of which faces are parallel to the plane back surface of the molding, and are to be applied at an angle to the strip or molding to be fitted; and an object of this invention is to cross cut one end of a stick or molding strip so that such end will eX- actly conform to the outer or ornamental face of the strip to which itis to be joined to form the coping, cornice, or ornamental molding, so that when the molding strips or sticks are joined together at their ends, the union may be so exact, that it will not mar the appearance of the joint.

An object of this invention is to provide improved means for cutting the ends of a molding to lit other moldings at surfaces to form corner joints of copings and cornices.

l-leretofore it has been customary to cut moldings for copings and cornice at a bevel at their meeting ends, with a view that when the joint is iitted,'there will be no opening between the ends. Such cuttinghas to be done with great accuracy and a slight variation from the exactl angle required, causes an opening at the joint, which spoils the iinish; and such a method of forming the oint makes it necessary that both of the meeting ends of the molding or coping strips must be cut at an acute angle; and that the ends of such strips shall terminate in a sharp edge.

An object of this invention is to avoid such sharp terminations.

The cutters may be of any required number and are in the form of blades having saw teeth, the cutting edges of which are adapted respectively to cut across the grain of the molding or coping.

The invention also includes means for hold- Serial No. 158,578.

ing the molding strip with its end in position to be cross cut.

The invention may be embodied in a device the reciprocating frame of which is adapted for holding only one set of blades, or it may be constructed with a device adapted t-o hold two sets of blades and arranged to be turned on a pivot to bring first one of the sets in the position for action and then the other set in position for action.

Cheapness, simplicity, ease of assemblyf and of changing from set to set of cutters forA fitting different forms of molding faces are other objects of the invention.

An object of the invention is to make provision whereby the molding can be quickly and easily brought into and clamped in position for cutting the joint forming surface, and can be easily released when the cutting has been effected.

The invention includes the various parts and combinations of parts going to make up the machine.

Strength7 simplicity, low cost of machine, and economy of time in fitting the molding andv coping, are further objects ofthe invention.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention may appear from the accompanying drawings, the subjoined detailed description and the appended claims.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure l is a front elevation of a combined rightand left hand Shaper, constructed with two forms of work holders in accordance with this invention to cut at various angles; the right hand work holder holding a piece of molding in place for right angle shaping; and the left hand holder being in position to hold a piece of molding indicated in broken lines at an acute angle; two cutter tools are shown set for cutting right hand work.

Fig. la is a detached slightly enlargedk rear view of a left hand work holder or chuck of the form shown at the left in Fig. 1.

Fig. 2 is a broken end elevational detail of the right hand work holder or chuck, partly in section and viewed from line 002 in Figs. l and 3.

a vertical section on line mZb, Figs` 'nt hand work holder or chuck in place, omitting the molding gage rod and showing parts in section substantially on line .COL-m6, 5.

l 1s a plan or" the machineshown 1n Fig` 1, omitting the left hand work holder.

Fig. 5 is a section on line ar", Figs. 1, 3 and 6.

iffis a o i el F g 6 l ng tudinal secbon on line rc3-030, Fig. 5.

F 7 is avview of two `iuXtaposed thin toothed-bladesor cutters to indicate the relatively reversed teeth on adjacent blades in the cutter tool shown in Figs. 1, 9, 10 and 11.

8 is a view analogous to Fig. 7, showing blades of a thicker torni for grooving a stick, stile or rail to receive a tenen.

Fig. 9 is an elevation from the lett of n ig. 1, partly in` section in a vertical plano indicated by line au, in Fig. 1.

Fig. 10.is a somewhat enlarged plan detail in section on line zum, Figs. 1 and 9.

Fig. 11 is a further enlargement showing in section, the cutter irame on a plane indicated by m, Fig. 9, and showing in plan, the upper ends ot a bunch of thin saw tooth/ec blades in a position imposed upon them by applying to the back of the bunch ot cutter blades, the ornamental tace oi a form or pattern made o1 a iece of molding to c fitted, and then tapping the tooth-ed edges ot the blades to cause them to `contact with the oval "face of the pattern, so that the toothed edges ol the saw blades will form acutting edge or tace complementary to the ornamental iace oil" the molding so as to correspondingly cross-cut the end ot a molding to make it lit the ornamental tace ol a corresponding' piece of molding; that is, to make its end contorni to the pattern; a fragment otthe end ot a piece ci molding is shown vvith a lluted ornamental side up; and it is understood that the end ot said molding' is conformed by the cutter, to the ornamental side oiE the molding it to tit, and then when he two moldings are placed together, liuted end against rlf d side, the long udinal flutes and grooves of each will be continuations, at a predetermined angle, of the flutes and grooves of the other.

Fig'. l2 is a side elevation of a form ot Shaper head with thick cutter blades, the toothed edges of which are shown.

13 is an elevation from the let't ot lines a, 13 and 14.

The frame comprises a pedestal 1 which may be of any suitable form ot construction, and is shown as a rectangular hollow column inside which is mounted a motor 2, the shaft 3 of which extends rearwardly from and outside the cblumn, and is there provided with a driving pulley de.

5 is a base flanged to the top ot the column 1 and provided with a bearing 6 in which is journalled a crank shatt provided at one end with a driven pulley 3 to which the driving pulley l is connected by a belt 9.

10 is a crank disk on the end of the crank shaft 7 opposite the driven pulley 3, and provided with a crank pin 11 which operates the connecting rod 12 journalled on a wrist pin 13 that projects 'from a reciprocating cutter trame carrier 1/1 having slides 15 that operate in ways 16 mounted on a support 17 lined to the base l by cap screws 13. ln Fig. 9 the carrier is shown provided with two wrist pins which may be either hollow or solid.

rlhe ways 16 are detachably lined by suitable means the cap screws 19, to lianges 2O 2. through which the wrist pins 13, 13 eX- tend to connect respectively with the cutter trame carrier 1K1, which in Fig. 9 is provided as shown with a hollow hub 22 that extends through the slot 21 and seats a shank 23 that is integral with the back 24 of the cutter trarne 251- and projects therefrom through the hub 22 and is held in place by a wing nut 25.

The cutter trame comprises the back 24: and top and bottom ends` c and open front and sides.

Said shank 23 is xedto and projects from the cutter frame back 24, that isv integral with the top and bottom ends c ot said trame.

.ln Fig. 9 the blade holder is shown as completely filled between its ends with a partition and twoV bunches ot' toothed blades 26 that are clamped in place by the front piece 27 of the trame that'is held in place by stud bolts a which are screwed into the ends c oit' the cutter trame to secure the front piece 27 which is held on the end walls c, by wing nuts b, and is provided with spring pressers 23 to yieldingly hold the toothed blades in the trame in moderate 'frictional relation to each other so that when the pattern or form 29 is in place behind thetoothed blades, and such blades are pressed toward the form, said blades may be adjusted edgewise to lit the pattern, and the nuts b tightened. i

The cutter frame in Fig. 9 is shown re volvableon the shank 23 and said trame is provided at its ends with locking bolts 30 that seatin sockets 31 in the cutter trame carrier 14.

' When the parts are in an operative-position as described, and shown in the several views, the motor is started by operating the switch 32 and thereby the tool comprising the bunch of cutters is vertically recirnrocatedV at a high speed so that the toothed edges of the blades will cut the end ot the molding strip 33 to conform to the tace 34 of the pattern or form 29 to which the saw tooth blades 26 have been adjusted as shown in Fig. 11.

rl'he Work holder is illustrated in Figs. l, 2 and 3 as comprising a shittable table 35 slidably mounted on an angularly adjustable bolster 3G that is pivoted on a pin 37 which is adjust-ably fined by a bolt 38 extending through an arcuate slot 39 in the support 17 and clamped in any predetermined position by a clamp nut 40. The pin 37 is central to the slot 3) so that the bolster 36 may be swung to any desired angle relative to the saw teeth.

In the form shown in Fig. 1 such angle is limited by the Work clamping frame 41 Which is lined to the adjustable table 35 carrying an adjustable gage rod 42, and that is mounted injvays 43 in the bolster 36 that is adjustable along such Ways by an adjusting lever 44 that is pivoted by a pivot 45 to the table and is connected by lost motion means as the pivoting pin 45 and slot 46, to the bolster; so that when the bolster is set in any desired position such as is shown in Fig. 1, as at right angles to the cutting edge of the bunch ot saw teeth, the table Will be held at right angles to the saw tooth edges, and by operating the lever, the table Will be moved toward and from the saw teeth at right angles thereto. By changing the angle of the bolster, the angle of the cut Will be changed so that the moldings can be joined at an angle other than a right angle, When required.

43 represents a Wooden support for the molding 33 the end ot which is to be shaped; and 49 is an adjustable clamp fined by bolt and Wing nut 50 to an upright 51 of the table that has a slot 52 along which the boltl 50 may be slid so that When the stick ot molding 33 is laid on the support 43 and is clamped by the clamp 49, the stick may be moved toward and trom the saw teeth so that when the cutter frame is being reciprocated up and down by the motor the end of the molding may be brought into position waere its end will be instantly shaped.

is an adjustable stop consisting of a screw, screwed through a flange on the shiftable table and adapted to Contact with the ene of the bolster at such point as may be required to stop the molding When its end has been properly cross cut. l

54 is a gage for use When numerous pieces ot molding et the same length are to be shaped. A stop is shown in the form ot a tht curved linger 54 pivoted at 55 to the adjustable block 56 slidably mounted on a rod 5'? that extends in parallelism to the Wooden support 43 and is adjustably lined to such rod by a set screvs7 58. rllhe heel 58 of' the stop finger 54, and the iioor 59 of the slot 1n Which it is plvoted are constructed to stop the finger in its stop position shown in solid lines in Fig. 2a, and in its open position shown in dotted lines in said 2a, so that it may be flipped from one to the other position by a touch of the hand for stopping short moldings or 'freeing long` moldings.

ln' cases Where the chuck has an extended clamping frame as at 41 in Fig. 1, the range 0lE angles to Which the end olf the Work 33 may be cut is limited, but the chuck on the lett hand in said Fig. 1 is shown Without such extension 41 and is adjusted at an acute angle to hold the piece ot Work 33 there shov/n in dotted lines, in position to be cut obliquely by the cutter tool.

Anti-slip devices, as the points 60, on the Work holder are provided to engage the Work 33 and assist in holding it from slipping when the bolster is moved toward the cutter.

In operating With either the right or left hand chuck, the handle 44 will be moved to WithdrawT the bolster' 35 from its advanced position and then the Work, as the stick 33, will be placed in lined position relative to the bolster, by the clamp 49 or the point 30. and then the handle 44 Will be moved to shift the bolster and the Work thereon toward the cutting edges until the cut is completed, then the handle will be moved to shift the bolster and Withdraw the stick from the path oit the cutters, then'the stick Will be removed from the bolster and replaced With a new stick and so on.

lVith the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, all that is necessary to change from the right angle eut to the oblique angle cut is simply to unscrew the Wing nut 25, Withdraw .the trame 24', turn it upside down, replace it, and then apply and tighten the nut 25 as before.

The Wooden Work support 43 is preferably of hard. strong Wood that can be cut by the cutters and thereby conformed at the end to the end desired tor the molding and it projects beyond the bolster toward the cutters so that When a new setting ot the cutters is made the end of the support may be cut by such Glitters to conform to the end cut ot the stick, thus preventing splitting or tuzzing of the stick by the teeth of the cutter.

I claim v 1. In combination With a reciprocating cutter; a bolster angularly adjustable relative to the cutter; a Work holder on the bolster; a gage rod lifted to the bolster; a gage block adjustable on the gage rod; means to .tix the gage block on the gage rod; and a gage linger pivoted to the gage block and adapted to be moved into and out ot the way of a stick on the Work holder.

2. In a machine ot the class described, the combination with a trame; of a cutter trame carrier reciprocally mounted on the trame; a plurality of relatively adjustable toothed bla-cles in said carrier; a motor for reciproeating the carrier; a bolster pvotally supported on the frame means for adjusting and setting the bolster at varying angles; a, table shftably supported by the bolster; an adjustable stop for the table; a Wooden support forthe Work; :L clamping frame for the Work; and a lever for moving the table with the stop, supp ort and clamping frame toward and away from the frame carrier during its reciprocaton.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Phoenix, Arizona, this 2 day of December, 1926.

WILLIAM R. SAUTTER.

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